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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:48:23 -0800
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Subject: Re: Cygwin's svn appends unwanted .exe to file name on checkout
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On 2/27/2010 10:05 AM, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 26/02/2010 22:45, David Rothenberger wrote:
>
>> I know the Cygwin DLL has some "magic" for appending the .exe extension
>> and I suspect that's getting in the way here, but I don't know when or
>> why it happens.
>
>    I believe it happens a lot more if you go using DOS paths(*).  Do not do that.

That was my guess at first, but I cannot reproduce the problem using DOS 
paths for the repository and Alan can reproduce the problem using Cygwin 
paths for the repository.

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